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Introduction Game developers constantly seek innovative ways to create more interactive multiplayer experiences. However, with increasing player expectations, rising game production costs, and growing competition, studios face the challenge of balancing game performance and profitability. Game developers from studios of various sizes tell us that reducing operational costs without compromising player experiences is a top priority […]

With over 190+ million users, Dream11 is the world’s largest fantasy sports platform. Their site offers fantasy cricket, football, kabaddi, basketball, hockey, volleyball, handball, rugby, American football & baseball. Dream11 is the flagship brand of Dream Sports, India’s leading Sports Technology company. They have partnerships with several national and international sports bodies and cricketers. About […]

Ensuring online communities are safe and inclusive places for all is essential for maintaining community engagement and ultimately obtaining the most value for your users. This challenge presents itself in many industries – ranging from gaming to social media networks. However, the volume of data and interactions between users increases daily making policing these communities […]

Mobile game developer and publisher Pixel Federation entertains more than 140M players worldwide with popular mobile games, including ‘Diggy’s Adventure,’ ‘Trainstation 2,’ ‘Puzzle Adventure,’ and ‘Port City.’ Founded by four game enthusiasts in 2007, the Slovakia-based company specializes in creating mobile free-to-play community-based experiences, determining development priorities based on player feedback. Hampered by increasingly frequent […]

Gamescom, the annual video game trade fair and conference held in Cologne, Germany, came roaring back in 2022 with over 265,000 consumers and industry professionals coming together to interact and get a glimpse into the future of gaming. The conference, one of the largest gaming events in the world, offers a platform for game developers, publishers, […]

Games are increasingly cross-platform and online, and game developers need to develop secure and scalable backend features to support these online elements of their games. Developers also want to allow players to play with their friends across platforms, and move gameplay between those platforms to provide a seamless player experience. Customers share with us that […]

Blog authors: Gena Gizzi, Jake Wolf, Noor Fairoza, and Chris Blackwell Democratizing Unreal Engine development on AWS with End User Compute products and advanced GPU-based EC2 instances Introduction The games industry is evolving and user-generated content (UGC) is leading the change. Players are making more UGC than ever, motivated by self-expression and the chance to […]

This post is written by Yahav Biran, Principal Solutions Architect, and Matt Trescot, Games, SA Leader – Americas Historically, the art of creating and running complex game servers locked developers in to a single CPU architecture, typically Intel/AMD. Our developers tell us it’s hard to introduce different CPU architectures once game servers are built for a […]

Epic Games (Epic) is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of Unreal Engine (UE), one of the most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tools that powers some of the world’s leading games including Fortnite, and is also utilized by creators across industries to deliver cutting-edge experiences. Epic Games and AWS recently collaborated to […]

A mage, a hacker, and a barbarian walk into a bar…  What sounds like the start of a joke is the ultimate vision for cyberpunk, blockchain collectible card game “Metropolis Origins”, created by game industry veterans at QXR Studios. Players build decks with cards from Government, Corporate, or Underground factions, and go up against other […]